Gipfel
German, noun
Gipfel is spelled G-I-P-F-E-L (6 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,812th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gipfel is a German masculine noun meaning “peak, pinnacle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gipfel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “höchste Stelle eines Berges oder eines Gebirgszuges”.
What does Gipfel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepeak, pinnacle
- 2
masculinesummit
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. höchste Stelle eines Berges oder eines Gebirgszuges 2. politisches Gipfeltreffen 3. Spitze eines Baumes 4. Höhepunkt einer Leistung, eines Vorgangs oder einer Emotion
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Gipfel
- Gipfels genitive
- Gipfeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gipfel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gipfel in German?
Gipfel appears 21 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).